Manage resources effectively now requires the use of tools that are proving to appeal particularly to the economy, but also sociology and psychology. Thus management must succeed in taking into account the representations and interests of different stakeholders of the company while still in the idea of organizational optimization.

Originally, echoing the ideas of Henri Fayol the management aims to ensure the functions:

In a modern perspective, assuming that production is only induced by the application, the management is reduced to two functions: marketing (and sales), finance, organization by the quality management (logistics, management of system information and human resource management).